Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-07
FASHIONS LATEST CRAZE.
ELECTRIC SPARKS IN FLOW ERs
WORN BY SOCTfL QUEENS.

eTArY RACES OF
Taste for Literary Circles Rapidly
observation-disclosures Being Pressed Tor
Tenement House inspectors.
NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-"Shall show you
the very latest?' querIed a Broadway
jeweler the other day as he extended to
me a handful of cream white hyacinths
IN their perfection Of bloom. took the
bunch OF fragrance, when, even as bent
over it there burst from the heart OF each
blossom a radiant glow, and | held IN my
hand pyramid OF dazzling white light.
1t was the last appreciation of electricity
seized upon by Dame Fashion, and made
subservient whether it would or no to the
whims and caprices OF her toilet. The
FAIRIES in "lolanthe" wore diadems Of
light, but flesh and blood damsels with no
stage glamour about them may now II
they so choose dance the german with a
radiance brighter than that of any Jewel
flashing from the flowers on their corsage
or IN their hair. There is tiny case to
be carried in the pocket or concealed
about the person which contains the
yoltaic cells for the supply Of the electric
light. From the poles Of the battery pass,
SO the ieweler showed me, the connecting
wires, very fine and silk-covered. which
lead to the microscopic lamp concealed IN
the heart of the flower. The current may
be turned on or shut of at Will, and the
beauty who feels all surety that her
charms will endure the illumination may
light up the blossoms that she wears or
any part of them at her pleasure. Roses
and half-opened buds of all sorts that
shut about the lamp CLOSELY and conceal
its mechanism are the favorites for the
experiment thus tar.
Mrs. Helen ,Iackson-I wonder why
people still persist in speaking of her AS
Helen Hunt Jackson, as If it were not
enough to give up ones own name for
husbands without being dubbed by the
titles of two husbands at once-has lett
her mark on this big country of ours,
whether 1t is in the way she wished or
mot The book of her affections, "Ra-
mona" that last effort whose failure as
she reckoned it, to awaken any general
interest in the wrongs OF the Indians
was a sore spot in her heart when she
died. has found use not often reckoned
on in the prospectus of novel or the cal
Culation of an autbOr-it has named
town. In the opening up OF Southern
California by the ubiquitous real estate
Spectator no site is more persistently
advertised or more glowingly puhed than
s4the new township OF Ramona only six
miles from the City OF Los Angeles, shell
tered by the beautiful foothills of the
San Gabriel valley, with six express
trains daily and an alluvial soil, well
adapted to the cultivation of oranges and
lemons; no oppressive heat, no frost, no
high winds" A paradise truly; let US 20
TO it when we winter in the South.
1t is noticeable TO what an extent the
taste for literary circles il developing in
New York and how frequently the guild
collects of an evening about some bright
woman whose skill in entertaining or
whose tact in adapting guests to guests or
whose personal magnetism brings out all
the people of the city best worth seeing.
1t 10 as it was in the days OF the Carey
sisters, save that the centres of attrac-
tlOn are more numerous and daily multi
plying. Mrs. Frank Leslie has appropri-
ated Thursday evening, Saturday is sa-
cred to Miss Mary L.. Booth and Friday TO
Mrs. John Sherwood, Jennie June has al
ways pleasant group about her on Mon
days. Mrs Little DevereuX Blake is usual
ly at home on Tuesdays and Mrs. Edmund
Clarence Stedman is one OF the attrac-
tons that call together her husbands
guests on Wednesdays. Miss Kate San
born is one of this winters acquisitions
and will have her own group OF adherents
about her ere long.
THERE'S petition In circulation in New
York for the appointment of a half dozen
women on the corps of tenement house
inspectors. 1t is being largely signed. l
hear. and indeed it is difficult to see how
anybody could withhold his name who is
familiar with the work DR.. Anna Danil
and others have done among the tenement
house jewellers. The increased activity
of women everywhere in what one might
call municipal housekeeping affairs Is no.
tlcea0le this winter. Mrs. NJ. +. Pierce
whose book on cooperative housekeeping
attracted some little attention two or
three years ago has been calling meetings
OF New York women TO discuss the BET
ter cleaning OF the streets. The
appointment of women as matrons to take
charge OF women at the police stations
has been asked for i'll Brooklyn and is be-
ing discussed in Boston, while CHICAGO
cOngratulates herself and scatters her
vaunts broadcast over the country upon
the excellent results Of the system in that
city.
The strife of the cookbooks is amusing.
The woman suffragists of Boston pub
lished one volume at their bazaar in Ire
mont Temple and realized goodly sum
from it's sale. Now the wOman's rights
recipes have penetrated as far into the
free and bounding West as Chicago, and
forward steps that city's Woman's CLUB
with the Characteristic Chicagoan claim
that its own private and particular
kitchen manual is as good as ANYTHING
the Hub can furnish If not better. That
same little woman suffrage cook book, bv
the way, following the well-trodden old
turnpike road to the masculine heart
through the masculine stomach, has
made curious hit, striking home where
volleys OF logic might have been shot in
vain. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, |
see, according to the reports OF the news
paper correspondents who have taken the
opportunity of her husbands death TO
write paragraph about her, has given
up her woman suffrage hobby altogether.
IL is noteworthy fact, the correspond
ents to the contrary Notwithstanding.
that Mrs. Stanton Is still President OF one
oi the two chief organizations in the
country devoted TO the pursuit OF the bal.
lot for the sex feminine, the National
Woman Suffrage Association.
Mrs. Cleveland no doubt enjoys her
popularity, but when one newspaper iE
tue free and easy way OF a sociaOle guild
falls into the habit OF calling her ''our
little Frankie. the bright star of the ad.
minlstration," another dubs her 'swset-
heart" third pet" a fourth ''our
daisy" tlfth "rogulsh Frank" and "A
sixth ''Frankie dear, the guiding genius
nj the nation" then it must be refreshing
TO fall back now and then on the otherex-
IRENE OF deferential respect to which
the vendors OF pa ent medicines
and toilet articles 20 when they vaunt
their particular nostrums as patroni2ed
~ no Honnrahfa Mra Eroy.r a.